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Building Bowser – A password cracking story

ID: 27b393b6-77ec-5561-ba41-ee594290f9f2

STIX ID: report--27b393b6-77ec-5561-ba41-ee594290f9f2

Feed Name: Fox-IT blog

Date Published: 2014-03-07

Date Updated: 2026-04-27

Author: Fox It

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This Fox-IT blog-style report describes building a dedicated multi-GPU password-cracking server (Bowser) and benchmarks showing the ability to brute-force NTLM 8-character passwords in roughly 24 hours; it explains hardware choices, configuration, performance tuning, and the implications for relying on short passwords versus passphrases.

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